A community project for local people to link gardens in Rudloe, Corsham and surrounding areas to create a wider habitat for hedgehogs.

The Leafy Lane Hedgehog Highway project encourages and coordinates local residents to remove barriers that prevent hedgehogs from travelling up to a mile every night in their quest to find food, shelter and a mate.

One of the main reasons hedgehogs are struggling in the UK is because our fences and walls reduce the amount of land available to them. We can give them a helping hand by creating holes or gaps for them to pass through.

Pledge to help

A photo of a hedgehog looking at a night-time infrared camera

Hedgehog Art: Share Your Creations!

November 2023

Big news for budding artists! Our website now features a gallery where you can showcase your hedgehog-inspired artwork.

Paintings, drawings, or digital creations – all are welcome in our hedgehog art extravaganza.

Just snap a picture of your artwork, and upload it via the add your hedgehog art form.

Do hedgehog highways work?

February 2023

Here's a video showing how a simple change in your garden - creating a hole in your fence - can really work!

A new project.

November 2022

Leafy Lane Hedgehogs is a new community project and is in the early stages of planning, with this recently launched website. If you'd like to get involved, you can pledge to create a hedgehog hole (or map an existing one), find out how to encourage hedgehogs in your garden or get in touch with any other ideas.

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Three hedgehogs around a cardboard shelter. There are multiple dishes of food and water and one the hedgehogs is inside the box.

Two hedgehogs on a patio with two dishes of food and water.

A hedgehog half-way through going underneath the gravel board of a fence to get to the next garden. Leaves are in the foreground.

A hedgehog collecting leaves in its mouth.

A hedgehog on the left of the frame looking directly at the camera. On the right and in the background are leaves from a shrub.

Two hedgehogs next to two dishes of food and water respectively.

A hedgehog drinking water from a dish with one paw on the edge of the dish.

A hedgehog partially obscured by leaves next to a fence.

Two hedgehogs on a lawn with one drinking out of a dish of water.

A tip to help hedgehogs in your garden

Create a wild corner

Log and leaf piles, compost heaps, wild corners and wildflower patches are all excellent options for your outside space. They provide safe areas during the daytime or for hibernating over winter and they also attract insects that can be a food source.